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Isaiah 9:13

New American Bible - revised edition

So the Lord cuts off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed in one day.

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While he was already in distress, the same King Ahaz increased his treachery to the Lord.

The impious in heart lay up anger; they do not cry for help when he binds them;

Why would you yet be struck, that you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, the whole heart faint.

Egypt shall accomplish nothing— neither head nor tail, palm branch nor reed, shall accomplish anything.

Lord, your hand is raised high, but they do not perceive it; Let them be put to shame when they see your zeal for your people: let the fire prepared for your enemies consume them.

Ah! Those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses; Who put their trust in chariots because of their number, and in horsemen because of their combined power, But look not to the Holy One of Israel nor seek the Lord!

Because of their wicked avarice I grew angry; I struck them, hiding myself from them in wrath. But they turned back, following the way of their own heart.

On that day the Lord shall shave with the razor hired from across the River (the king of Assyria) the head, and the hair of the feet; it shall also shave off the beard.

I winnowed them with a winnowing fork at the gates of the land; I have bereaved, destroyed my people; they have not turned from their evil ways.

For I know well the plans I have in mind for you—oracle of the Lord—plans for your welfare and not for woe, so as to give you a future of hope.

Lord, do your eyes not search for honesty? You struck them, but they did not flinch; you laid them low, but they refused correction; They set their faces harder than stone, and refused to return.

Son of man, say to her: You are an unclean land receiving no rain at the time of my fury.

Even in defiling yourself with depravity I would still have cleansed you, but you would not have your impurity cleansed. You will not be cleansed now until I wreak my fury on you.

As it is written in the law of Moses, this evil has come upon us. We did not appease the Lord, our God, by turning back from our wickedness and acting according to your truth,

I will go back to my place until they make reparation and seek my presence. In their affliction, they shall look for me.

The arrogance of Israel bears witness against him; yet they do not return to the Lord, their God, nor seek him, despite all this.

They have again become useless, they have been like a treacherous bow. Their princes shall fall by the sword because of the insolence of their tongues; thus they shall be mocked in the land of Egypt.

I sent upon you pestilence like that of Egypt; with the sword I killed your young men and your captured horses, and to your nostrils I brought the stench of your camps; Yet you did not return to me— oracle of the Lord.

Though I made your teeth clean of food in all your cities, and made bread scarce in all your dwellings, Yet you did not return to me— oracle of the Lord.

And those who have turned away from the Lord, and those who have not sought the Lord, who have not inquired of him.

Yet when you seek the Lord, your God, from there, you shall indeed find him if you search after him with all your heart and soul.




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